展期 Period：
2024.7.18—2024.8.25
艺术家 Artist：
苑瑗 Yuan Yuan策展人 Curator：
曹峪 Cao Yu地点 Venue：
前言 Introduction：
苑瑗已经探求从“半入花园”到去“无忧宫”，再到转身离开花园重回现实的进阶性探索和开放式讨论。本次展览上虽然依旧满目繁花，但艺术家已经开启了更为深层的“二次讨论”，从“引人入园”升级到“思考出园”，画作中营造出神域一样的“花园”，释放出让每个人开始冥想与深思的无香芳泽。如同久居都市的你我繁忙之余走进花园，在植物的无尽包裹与环绕中，暂时性忘却现实存在的哀愁与烦恼。
本次《绿苔，尘埃与楼台》展览上的作品，苑瑗想要探求的则是我们每一个人离开“花园”之后的态度与心境。好似《新龙门客栈》中飞沙走石的大漠之中本不应有客栈。但这客栈就是大漠中的一座“神域”，更是大漠中每个人眼中的“花园”，所有行走在痛苦不堪又万千叵测大漠之中的人都各怀抱负与野心，谁都想赶快进到“新龙门客栈”里，求得片刻的安全与喘息。但对于他们而言最难的不是行走在大漠之中，而是进入“新龙门客栈”后，并在短暂释怀温存休整后又该如何再有勇气的走出客栈和走回大漠：要继续未完成的征程、要解决躲不开的问题、要直面更棘手的困难，要挑战早已注定的命运，还是要面对心中或爱或恨的那个人……
诚然，苑瑗个展《绿苔，尘埃与楼台》上的全新力作，更多的是希望每一位观者在周身沐浴着艺术家深厚的专业造型功底、鲜明舒展的植物主题语言和悉心营造的冥想神域氛围之外，能够继续有勇气且更加沉着冷静地思考“走出花园”后：何去何从的放弃或抗争，还是随心随性的不变或万变……
撰文：曹峪
Yuan Yuan’s recent exploration and open discussions expanded from "Half-entering the Garden" to "No Worry Garden" and then returned to reality. Although this exhibition still centers on the subject of flowers, the artist initiates a "secondary discussion" that "appeals to people to the garden" and "reflects on leaving the garden," and by creating a "divine realm" in the paintings, and releasing an odor-less aroma that’s inducive to meditation and ponderance. Like those of us who are long-time urban residents, when we walk into the garden after a busy day and are surrounded and embraced endlessly by plants, it allows us to forget the sorrows and troubles of reality temporarily.
In the works in the exhibition "Someone Was Just Here," Yuan wants to explore the attitude and state of mind once leaving the "garden." Similar to the film "New Dragon Gate Inn" film, where there should not have been an inn in the desert with flying sand and rocks, yet the inn serves as a "sacred realm" of the desert, or the "garden" in the traveler's eyes. Those who traverse the desert with resolute ambitions endure pain, encounter wicked surprises, and hope to arrive at the "New Dragon Gate Inn" as soon as possible for safety and rest. Yet, the most challenging thing is not only walking into the desert but having had a short repose at "New Dragon Gate Inn" to pick up one’s courage to carry on. In other words, to continue on the unfinished journey, address the unavoidable questions, confront urgent difficulties, challenge a predetermined fate, or face the person in one's heart with passion or despise...
Admittedly, Yuan Yuan's solo exhibition "Someone Was Just Here," while impressing every visitor with the artist’s profound and professional compositional skills, their distinctive and expansive subject around botany, and the artist's carefully rendered divine and meditative realm, the show would encourage its viewers to ponder, once "stepping out of the garden calmly," would one give up or continue to fight, or to remain steady or transform as one pleases...
Text by Cao Yu
